Conexon in the News
By Gerard Edic -Staff Writer | January 30, 2021 – Updated January 31 Delta Fiber, wholly owened subsidiary of Greenwood-based electric cooperative Delta Electric, has been awarded $46.9 million in grant support…
By Renaldo Hopkins | January 14, 2021 at 10:23 AM CST – Updated January 14 at 10:23 AM COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) – Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association is launching a fiber-to-the-home network…
Portfolio of solutions equips co-ops with breadth of customer education, communications resources, and creative branding and design services By AIT News Desk On Dec 4, 2020 Rural fiber-optic network design and construction management leader Conexon has…
By JOHN H. WARD Monroe Journal | Dec 2, 2020 Crews in white bucket trucks and four-wheelers with spools of cable have been busy the last couple of months working…
With the pandemic, reliable broadband internet has become a new necessity. Co-ops are stepping in where Big Telecom won’t. By TERESA CAREY | Freethink.com 28 Oct, 2020 06:30 PM Shaw…
Congratulations to the Rural Electric Cooperative Consortium (RECC) for achieving a critical milestone in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) process and taking one more step to close the Digital…
HOUSTON — Natchez Trace Electric Power Association recently received $417,209 in a second round of funding from the Mississippi Electric Cooperatives Broadband Covid-19 grant program, Natchez Trace General Manager Shawn…
Tue, August 18, 2020 | Posted by Ry Marcattilio-McCracken This week on the podcast Christopher talks with Ron Barnes, President and CEO Biloxi-based Coast Electric Power, an electric cooperative in Mississippi…
8/5/20 at 2:37 PM by Joan Engebretson Fifteen Mississippi rural electric cooperatives have won a combined total of $65 million in rural broadband funding through the CARES Act passed earlier this year…
July 2, 2020 | Press Release on portman.senate.gov WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Mike Braun (R-IN), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Doug Jones (D-AL) introduced…
By Masha Zager | Broadband Communities The FCC’s upcoming RDOF auction, scheduled for October, will give rural communities a chance to bid on support for fiber-to-the-home networks. A decade ago,…
Fiber-to-the-home leaders and innovators for 2020 May/June 2020 By Broadband Communities Staff “Building a Fiber-Connected World” is the tagline of Broadband Communities magazine, and each year the FTTH Top 100…
In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission changed the definition of broadband in response to growing Internet demands. Experts differ on whether the COVID-19 crisis calls for another definition change in…
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) – The Board of Directors of East Mississippi Electric Power Association voted Friday to approve a $10.5 million fiber-to-the-home broadband internet pilot project. EMEPA says the project…
June 11, 2020 Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19), member of the House Task Force on Rural Broadband, announced his support for the Rural Broadband Acceleration Act,…
June 9, 2020 | Author: Cathy Cash | Cooperative.com A new Virginia law will help reduce delays and costs for electric cooperatives and other broadband providers to deploy internet in…
BY JED PRESSGROVE / JUNE 8, 2020 GovTech.com Mississippi is now seeing how legislation can swing open the door for rural broadband expansion. In January 2019, former Gov. Phil Bryant signed the Mississippi Broadband Enabling…
May 27, 2020| Loren Thomas | WLTX TV RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. — Improving broadband around the state has been a topic of discussion since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the…
OEC Fiber announced today it has surpassed 10,000 subscribers online in just over a year of offering services to the public. This milestone demonstrates OEC Fiber’s commitment to serving Oklahomans…
By Kelly Hill on MAY 14, 2020 | RCR Wireless News As the Federal Communications Commission mulls exactly how it will distribute the proposed $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund over a decade…
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The Electric Co-op Rural Broadband Movement is underway!
Electric cooperatives across the country are making a significant impact in rural America, making a brighter future possible for millions!
Through the tireless efforts of Conexon’s partner cooperatives, more than 100,000 electric co-op members have been connected to gigabit-capable networks, and are today realizing the education, economic and lifestyle benefits of world-class broadband. We celebrate their success and invite other cooperatives to join the movement to bridge the digital divide!
